Gold Digger
Susie Tate
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
4.08
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 22 ratings · 336 pages · Published: 17 Oct 2024
Aware of the power imbalance, he sets out to make her his, and he thinks he’s getting somewhere until she seriously betrays his trust. So now he tells himself he hates her, and he makes sure everyone knows it. But once Ollie realizes that his privilege and self-absorption have made him entitled and completely blind, he’s determined to win Lottie back. A fake engagement might be a bit extreme, but his family had been getting its way for five hundred years, and the Duke of Buckingham was no different from his ancestors.
Lottie’s life is a struggle. She’s had to fight for everything since going into foster care at the age of twelve. The Duke of Buckingham, wouldn’t understand struggle if it smacked him in the face. He’s got money and family coming out of his ears; she has twenty quid in her current account and no family other than her traumatized, selectively mute eight-year-old little sister, whom Lottie is determined to keep safe.
She doesn’t have time for handsome Dukes with silver tongues. So she tells herself she’s not heartbroken when he turns on her like she knew he would, putting everything she worked so hard for in jeopardy. She needs to concentrate on survival. But Lottie underestimates just how charming Ollie can be. Or what a formidable opponent his centuries-old, innate arrogance makes him.
This is a billionaire, enemies to lovers, fake engagement, grumpy boss, contemporary romance.
Trigger warnings for assault, mentions of domestic violence and past childhood neglect.
Tagged as:
- m-f romance 5
- contemporary 4
- boss & employee 4
- rich hero 3
- workplace/office 2
- funny 2
- class difference 2
- good grovel 2
- independent heroine 2
- working class heroine 2
- possessive hero 2
- dual pov 2
- enemies to lovers 1
- angst 1
- forced proximity 1
- found family 1
- height difference 1
- caretaking 1
- cheerful/happy heroine 1
- sassy heroine 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- poor heroine 1
- single mother 1
- alpha male 1
- royal hero 1
- Add topics
- geography
- england 2
- content warnings
- past child neglect 2
- alcoholism 2
- abuse 1